The Graduate School of Management (also known as GSOM SPbU) (''russian: Высшая школа менеджмента Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, ВШМ СПбГУ'') is the

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of Saint Petersburg State University. GSOM offers undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs taught in English and Russian. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in Europe. GSOM’s

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degree is the only MiM program in Russia ranked by the

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History

* 4 November 1992: The University signs a cooperation agreement with

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* 1 September 1993: The School starts teaching. It counts six professors and 33 bachelor students. The first dean is elected Prof. Yu. V. Pashkus (''russian: Ю. В. Пашкус''). The School is supervised by an International Advisory Board chaired by John E. Pepper, Jr., CEO,

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. * 1999: The Faculty greets its first 19 Masters and opens an English-speaking ECTS-compliant program,

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, in cooperation with four Nordic business schools. * 2004: The Faculty creates its R&D institute, signs an agreement with four European business schools to create an International Executive MBA (IEMBA) program, and joins

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. * 2005: Most programs have transferred to the Bologna model, the Faculty starts offering

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's degree. * 2006: The Faculty joins CEMS and EFMD and launches an Executive MBA (EMBA) program. President

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lays a cornerstone into the foundation of the school's new campus in Mikhailovka, a former royal estate in

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. * 2008: GSOM SPbU launches corporate education programs in cooperation with

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, joins PIM, and gets accredited by

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(Executive MBA) and EPAS (Bachelor's). * 2009: GSOM SPbU joins GMAC and launches a Dual-Degree Executive MBA program in cooperation with

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. * 2021: GSOM SPbU received AASCB accreditation and since that it has Triple accredetation.

Programs

# Bachelor'
degree
#* International Management #* Management #* Public Management # Master's degre

#*

(MiM) #* Master in Business Analytics and Big Data (MiBA) #* Master in Corporate Finance (MCF) #* Smart City Management (SCM) # Master's dual-degree: #* within the MiM, MiBA, MCF programs #* CEMS Master in International Management (CEMS MiM) #* HEC-Paris #* School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Kozminski University # Executive Education: #* Executive MBA #** Dual-Degree Executive MBA in English #** Executive MBA in Russian #* Corporate Education #* Open Programs #* Professional Development Programs # Candidate's and Doctor's degrees

Faculty and structure

Director

The Director of the Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University is

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, Deputy President and Chairman of the

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Management Board.

Advisory board

GSOM is supervised by the Advisory Board chaired by Deputy Prime Minister

Sergei Ivanov Sergei Borisovich Ivanov ( rus, Сергей Борисович Иванов, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪtɕ ɪvɐˈnof; born 31 January 1953) is a Russian senior official and politician who has served as the Special Representative of ...

Faculty and students

GSOM employs 89 full-time faculty members and over a lot of professors from other faculties of the university and international business schools, as well as leading management practitioners.

Premises and facilities

GSOM is headquartered in the Arthur B. Schultz building at 1-3 Volkhovsky Pereulok on

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, which houses the administration, library, publishing house, and post-graduate programs. In 2006, the school was granted Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov's former summer estate in

to redevelop it and create a suburban campus. The Mikhailovskaya Dacha campus was opened in 2015 and houses all undergraduate programs.

Rankings and accreditations

In 2012 GSOM obtained institutional accreditation

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(European Quality Improvement System). The quality of educational programs is approved by program accreditations:

(Executive МВА) and EPAS (Bachelor). GSOM SPbU is a member of global associations of the leading business schools: EFMD,

, CEMS, PIM, EABIS, GBSN,

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. According to EdUniversal ranking since 2008 GSOM SPbU is the first among Russian business schools, and in 2013 EdUniversal agreed for the second time that GSOM SPbU is the best among business schools of Eastern Europe. The ''

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'' newspaper ranking (2011, 2012, 2013), based on interviews with MBA graduates, named GSOM as the first among Russian business schools. In 2021, GSOM SPbU received AASCB accreditation and now has the

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References

External links

Official Website of the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University

Official Website of St. Petersburg State University
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